"In my current role, we move dangerous shipments regularly. Before joining the rail transport industry, I worked in road transportation where we moved trucks of gasoline and highly flammable goods. I am TDG (Transportation of Dangerous Goods) certified and have had zero accidents throughout my career. I recently obtained my TDG certification and am ready for further safety training when it comes to hazardous or restricted shipments."

When transporting hazardous materials, BNSF takes responsible care and emphasizes protecting its employees, customers, and the communities through which they operate. "Our environmental team has a strong commitment to training local responders on hazmat awareness and emergency response. We want to ensure that we can work with communities and respond quickly in the unlikely event that a hazmat emergency occurs." They also advertise transparency, through honoring "Hazardous Materials Information Requests" to local emergency responders, elected officials, and emergency management officials. Officials requesting the information are asked to agree to use the information solely for emergency response planning purposes and not to make the information public for security reasons. This information is provided on a confidential basis.

According to their virtual tour, tank cars carry liquids or gasses, gondolas can carry coal, aggregates, ores, or scrap metal, hoppers carry agricultural or industrial products, boxcars transport industrial or consumer goods, autoracks carry cars or trucks, intermodal flatcars carry containers or truck trailers, centerbeam flatcars carrying lumber or steel, and other flatcars carrying a variety of products such as wind turbine blades, machinery, pipe or wood poles.